anencephalic

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Two weeks later, she was diagnosed with an anencephalic pregnancy, a fatal defect where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024

So ruled the UN Human Rights Committee in 2005, after the Peruvian government forced a pregnant teenager to carry an anencephalic fetus to term.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2023

In 2012, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that mothers should also be allowed to terminate the pregnancy of anencephalic babies - which are born without most of their brains and typically live hours or days.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2016

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost all anencephalic babies die soon after birth.

From New York Times • May 29, 2013

Her own child was anencephalic and acranial, with entire absence of vault of skull.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock